China Railway Group Limited

China Railway Group Limited
CREC
Native name
中国中铁股份有限公司 (Chinese)
Company typePublic
IndustryConstruction
Founded2007
Headquarters,
China
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Chairman: Li Changjin
ProductsRailways, Highways, Installation, Design, Survey, Manufacturing, Real Estate, Resources, Investments, Mining
OwnerChinese Government (via China Railway Engineering Corporation)
Number of employees
282,256[1] (2020)
ParentChina Railway Engineering Corporation
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese中国中铁股份有限公司
Traditional Chinese中國中鐵股份有限公司
Literal meaningChina China Railway Company Limited by Shares
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinZhōngguó zhōngtiě gǔfèn yǒuxiàn gōngsī
Chinese short name
Simplified Chinese中国中铁
Traditional Chinese中國中鐵
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinZhōngguó zhōngtiě
Websitewww.crec.cn

China Railway Group Limited, known as CREC (the acronym of its predecessor and parent company China Railway Engineering Corporation), is a Chinese construction company which floats in Shanghai and Hong Kong stock exchanges. The major shareholder of the company is the state-owned China Railway Engineering Corporation (CRECG).

By revenue, CREC is the largest construction company in the world in the 2015 Engineering News-Record "Top 225 Global Contractors".[2] In 2016, CRECG ranks in the 57th place among Fortune Global 500 Enterprises[3] and the 7th place among Top 500 Chinese Enterprises.

  1. ^ "China Railway Group". Forbes.com. Retrieved 21 April 2021.
  2. ^ "The Top 225 Global Contractors". Engineering News-Record.
  3. ^ "Global 500". Fortune.